I just got an email from a friend in Belfast eager to know when the blogs will be starting again. I then checked on the God’s Kingdom blog to discover one just posted with the above title. So I put that together as a nudge for me to begin writing again🙂
The rest of that line from the song is of course…….’the rain has gone.’
And the song concludes……………it’s gonna be a bright bright bright sunshiny day😀
Well the sunshiny story behind the photo of Hilary under a double rainbow was as follows…….
We were walking at the coast one day when I recognized someone walking towards us in the other direction.
‘Winnie?” I enquired.
‘Yes. Who are you?’ Was the puzzled reply.
‘Paul and Hilary Kyle….remember from the year of 78’ medical school?‘
The passing of 50 years has a way of making one unrecognizable to friends!
As we continued in conversation Hilary noticed another familiar face passing by.
‘Eileen? ‘ she enquired.
‘Yes. Who are you?” came another puzzled reply.
‘Hilary Johnston I was. I was in the same geography class as your husband at Queens University.’
With that the heavens opened.
‘I have an umbrella.’ Said Eileen. ‘Let’s shelter by that tall hedge.
And so for the next 20 minutes we had ‘the church of the umbrella’
Remember Jesus words. ‘Where two or three are lead together by the Holy Spirit there am I in the midst of them.”
When Winnie’s husband, Stephen came to rescue the drowning rats we realized we also knew one another!
As the rain stopped the double rainbow appeared in the heavens, a sign of Father’s heavenly orchestration of this earthly ‘co-incidence’ 😀
After a gap of 50 years for all three it was Father’s time for them to have a reunion with us..……a reunion that continued over the retreat a few weeks later which they all attended
………and then on the day after the retreat in the nearby town of Holywood I felt to go to a local coffee shop. At one point as I was working, I looked up.to see my newly seated neighbors……..WOW! Winnie and Stephen!!!
Our ‘kingdom business ongoing, our kingdom connections confirmed.